hardening document....

[sukumar maddela]

Hello all,

This is sukumar, new to this group, i would like to harden my linux 8.0 box. i.e.. i would like to block unwanted ports and stop unwanted services, and i want some advanced software's to check the security status of server, what are the secured permission for system directories and files. by combining all this, i want a general document for hardening RH linux 8.0 . any one help me. plzz

[Steven E. Protter]

http://www.bastille-linux.org/

http://www.linux-sec.net/Harden/howto.gwif.html

http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+security+hardening&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

SEP

[Rick Garland]

Lots of documents to be found on search from google.

security + hardening + linux

[Ivan Ferreira]

Nessus is an excelent tool. It's available at:

www.nessus.org/